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The Rule of Lawless 0
Michael in Norfolk explains why Donald Trump accused six Congresspersons, all of whom have distinguished records of serving in the military or intelligence ranks, of sedition for reminding military personnel that they need not obey illegal orders.
It’s quite simple, really:
American Stasi 0
ICE detains another American citizen for–I don’t know–having a Spanish last name maybe?
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Veteran journalist John Young hears a rhyme that sounds awfully like “Remember the Maine!”
No excerpt of summary can do justice to his article. Just go read it.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” fails to keep his portable phallus in his pants.
Prosecutors say he was sleeping with his father, who had the gun in his pants. The man reportedly had a gun safe and was aware of how to use it.
(snip)
“The defendant reported that he must’ve fallen asleep, the gun fell out of his pocket,” the prosecuting attorney said in court.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
All the News that Fits 0
Michael in Norfolk bemoans the false equivalence in dis coarse discourse. A snippet:
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
A century and a half ago, men dressed up in masks to terrorize, capture, torture, and sometimes kill folks whose skin was darker than theirs.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron points out that Donald Trump has been quite happy to hire immigrants to work at his resorts even as he has derided them to attract support from racists and bigots (my words, not Farron’s).
Whoopsie Doodle, Black Sox Redux Dept. 0
One more time, no one could have predicted this. Via the AP:
Except everyone who was paying attention.
Suffer the Children 0
As I have pointed out before, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
Mary Trump runs the numbers from the Trump maladministration’s campaign of mean for the sake of mean.